It seems people think that city life is the place to live but country life has a wonderful aspect to it with its slow easy going ways. here in the country we eat great homegrown foods and breathe clean air and drink clean water. Oh we don't pay for water. We also have much security in hard times because we help and know our neighbors. Many are farmers and grow tons of food. I just can't understand why people want to live in the city. Ironically many city people come to the country for vacation. Sheesh we live in vacation land 24/7/365 and wonder why the city people are working so hard trying to upmanship their neighbors with McMansions and expensive cars. Oh well life is good here and myself all i can say is i sure wouldn't mind a partner out here in hillbilly land. yeaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa
PS: When it gets so tough in the cities people will soon be flocking to the country just to survive.. But when you do come come with a positive attitude and one of giving and helping and we don't do lazy here :-*
Wellll.... I wouldn't go as far as country 'bumkin'...
I live out in the 'sticks' (wooded areas in WI). Living further away from cities is far better so long as you don't mind driving 45 minutes to go grocery shopping and the closest gas station is 13 minutes away.
The city (... like 50K people) life isn't bad, but theres one thing I just cant stand about any city. Theres so much light in a city at night from signs and street lights that on a clear night you can only see 1/5 of the stars.
But, try getting 10Mbps download speeds in the sticks. just not gunna happen.
I grew up in a small town in Wyoming. Population 425. There were 17 in my graduating class. That's small. However, I only go back to visit. I prefer a medium size city.
I live in a town of 8,920. Which is part of a larger city of 105,594. Which is part of an city of 583,776, Portland, OR.
I did live in Seligman, AZ. Which is a really small town on Route 66. But I like the big city. Especially when I had to drive 100 miles one way to work. :o
I think Hillbilly is another word I wouldn't associate with myself.
It's just one of those things I guess. Never could completely like Country Music. I don't drink Budweiser. I don't own cowboy boots. I don't own a John Deere. I don't like NASCAR. My dog and wife hasn't left me (gotta pick on the hicks once in a while... and the bad grammar was intended).
It always strikes me as odd when I meet someone who's lived in Wisconsin all their life and so has their entire family yet they have a Louisiana 'drawl' in their accent.
For some reason when someone uses the term Hillbilly (especially), country bumpkin or hick I always think of country music type people (extreme would be Beverly Hillbilly'esk).
I would be a city slicker living in the woods I guess.
The population per square mile for the county I live in is 1-10 people per square mile (in the northern section of WI).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wisconsin_population_map.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wisconsin_population_map.png)
I live in a rural area and enjoy it.At this time i have no intention of moving to town.
I`m out in psychohillbilly deliverence country. Look up the golers on youtube, that`s about says it all, except we didn`t have dilaudid , crack, and meth, back then. Ahh the good old days. It`s not so bad, keep `em scared and they`ll leave you alone, mostly. The worst are the roving theives ,and the local gossip circles which just invent new rumours when they havve nothing to say about you. Sometimes i miss the anonymity of the city. But the forty acres makes up for that.
Hey wait a minute. I like NASCAR ( Go Jimmy ;D ), country music, and beer. My dog and wife left me. I had a pair of cowboy boots and a John Deere ( OK it was a lawn mower, but still ). :icon_giggle: :icon_giggle: :icon_giggle:
I'm not sure that either of those terms apply to actual people or even small groups of people. I've never heard of a bumpkin or slicker used by anyone I've met. I live between St Cloud and MPLS. This is the start of the true 10,000 lakes regions. This is the area where the 20's-30's Gangsters held a truce and vacationed. I'm not very far from the supposed area John Dillanger buried his money. There is a very rich history to the area. We have of course the Gold Coast where families summer cabins are literally twice the size of an average house.
You start your car with the intention of driving a minimum of 10 miles to the nearest gas station, but one of those directions also will get you on the interstate system.
My average internet spd is about 12Mbs, but again, I'm just down the road from the 'Gold Coast'.
I don't wear a 'cowboy' hat, mostly because I'm a Horseman, not a cowboy. The bars all around here have Hip-Hop to Tammy Wynette on the juke boxes. And anyone who has that Louisiana drawl in there voice is either about to fall off their bar stool, or watch to much TV about southern living.
But what I like the most is that whether walking or driving, you know it's a local cause they give you the 1-4 finger wave when they drive by.
I don't have to know them, because they are already my neighbors and it's a given that neighbors help neighbors. Even if I'm walking the back roads I may not see maybe one or two people go by, but its reassuring that if you were viciously attacked by one of the many dangerous animals they let run loose around here, sooner or later someone will be coming by. Maybe not for a day or so, but neighbors are like that.
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Now that I think about it, Bachmann is a country hick and Pawlenty is the big city guy who doesn't know how to fish. Timmy would admit to that, but Bachmann is of the opinion that she is quite smart, but I have never met anyone who thought she was. Graduated from high school, but really, just what is it that she has done? For someone else? And t-paw will tell you he never raised taxes, but he did put in some very odd fees on things that worked just like taxes. But as a governor, what did he actually do with our money? He doesn't know either.
In my country the government is trying to PAY people to move to the countryside... and they aren't really moving...
I love the city :) to me it's where everything happens. But it may be because I grew up in a really dense city (where buses are usually packed full at 3 a.m. even though they run every few minutes to a maximum of 20), so anything less than that just completely bores me out... I can appreciate going to the countryside for a holiday and it's a nice change, but I definitely would not want to be in the countryside for too long.
Well i ain't no redneck and yes i do like some country music. I have a gun but no bullets. Well the ones i have i found when i moved the old log house. Yes i do not have running water inside but i have lots outside :) Yes i eat great like a hard working farmer i am. My neighbors don't drink because 90% of them are either amish or mennonites. I do have a drink once every couple weeks. No i do not make moonshine YET! Yes i can put my belly up on the table (not from beer i hate it) but when i stand up it moves to my rear. I'm a hillbilly because i love the country and for no other reason. I do not mean bringing in the city to the country but living like they did half a century ago. I will never ever live in a trailer but i did live in a camper for 2 months while i fixed up my 1820's home. I had to run the squirrels out that had taken over this house for 20 yrs. Now its all put back together and its like walking back in time when you enter here. I do burn firewood and my toast on a stovetop toaster. The extra charcoal is good for the liver to naturally filter out impurities. I hope this gives people here a better idea of what i think a country bumpkin is. Oh i hate nascar and TV's and sports and think they are a total waste of fuel, time and energy. However, i doubt i will ever give up my telephone or internet. Unless i find the right soulmate who keeps me in the hay :o
Quote from: apple pie on August 07, 2011, 02:30:52 PM
In my country the government is trying to PAY people to move to the countryside... and they aren't really moving...
I love the city :) to me it's where everything happens. But it may be because I grew up in a really dense city (where buses are usually packed full at 3 a.m. even though they run every few minutes to a maximum of 20), so anything less than that just completely bores me out... I can appreciate going to the countryside for a holiday and it's a nice change, but I definitely would not want to be in the countryside for too long.
yea the city is ok to visit once every 6 months to see family but other than that i want to get the hell out of the city as fast as i can
I'm a city slicker that lives off the map right now :P
Rural areas bore me to teats... sure I see the scenery and it's sometimes pretty... but nothing ever happens. At least in cities: people are all doing something. There isn't enough noise in the country... such to the effect that I sometimes wake to the silence and have to investigate the house to see if everyone's alright.
Only thing I'll miss about the country is my dog, who might as well be a fox what with her appearance and activities and even 'bark' when she rarely does.
Quote from: M2MtF2FtM on August 07, 2011, 02:42:03 PM
yea the city is ok to visit once every 6 months to see family but other than that i want to get the hell out of the city as fast as i can
Well, I was born in city A and now live in city B.
People who usually live in city A, can't stand city B and usually wants to get the hell out of there as far as they can.
People who usually live in city B, can't stand city A and usually wants to get the hell out of there as far as they can.
So I guess it's not just a city-countryside thing :laugh:
PS It took me about 10 years to get used to city B :P
Haha! sounds like the people who live in Mpls and St Paul.
Out here a traffic jam is a tractor with 4 cars behind it.
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Country girl. The nearest real city is an hour and a half away.
Got a nice garden, and about 20 chickens.
Country life is nice.
Redneck here! I hate country music but I love space and quiet, with a garden and chickens like Cynthia. I like having a big yard to mow, and critters running around, and the sound of cicadas in the day and crickets at night. I like the sky to actually get dark so I can see the stars. I'm rather out of my element at the moment, having moved from my small home town to a big city. Perhaps not that big in the scheme of things, but it's much too big for my liking. I'll be glad when I can finally move back home.
Both, from SanFran and Oakland, to rural, hee-haw (population 511, Salute) Iowa. Thanks, I'll take the city, particularly these cities (SanFran/Santa Rosa). Isolation is nice, but its' also dangerous. And I like having a world-class opera, ballet and symphony, and a couple of good clubs for rock/jazz. The food is awesome, mostly local/organic. I need the ocean (I don't understand how people can live without one, beaches are natures most perfect gift). And Santa Rosa is in Sonoma County, which is mostly rural. Our number one and two cash crops are marijuana and wine - and both are about the best in the world. Only France can really rival our wine, and even then...
I'm surprised I didn't see this thread earlier.
I currently live on the edge of a well spread out rural city of 80,000. It's a nice enough place, but any support services are in Melbourne 2 1/2 hours away.
In two weeks I will be moving to Hobart which is about three times the size, and will have access to a lot more services, entertainment, restaurants etc. Due to it's layout and location it is not far to the bush if you want to get away from the city for a while. There is also the river and ocean, something I have missed.
Best of both really.
Karen.
population 550, 3 miles to nearest town (population 7,000), 30 miles to nearest city (population 250,000) its about 30ft from the edge of my garden to the nearest field :)
i love the countryside, cities make me nervous
I dont really consider myself a country bumpkin but I'm from montana so i think that I would be classified as such in a bigger city. I live in a town of about 100k people and I prefer it, but the countryside is not a long ways off. Lots of farmland surrounding the city, sugar beets, corn and wheat. I like how Billings is set up, but there doesnt seem to be much diversity here, which blows. I'm moving to Missoula in a few weeks and it is more of a "hippy" town lol, I'll probably fit right in.
Born and bred in rural Iowa. After I got out of school I lived in the metropolis of Oakdale, Iowa. You can look it up on MapQuest to see how small that is. I followed the jobs to Minneapolis, and I live in St. Paul now. I like the country, but I'm in the city by necessity.
I'm a city kid.
Just got back from a visit to a tiny rural town, however. While it was gorgeous and peaceful, I didn't like having to drive 20 minutes to find Tylenol at midnight. I like living half a mile from a 24-hour Walgreens. My head's just full of what-if's. I don't like being far away from things I potentially need.
I was born and raised in the city/suburbs, but I'm really a country/mountain girl at heart. Someday, my spouse and I hope to have a place in the Rockies where we are pretty much off by ourselves, but still within a short drive of town.
So many dreams...all of them expensive. *sigh*
Quote from: Lucas Bann on August 07, 2011, 10:00:48 AM
hey I'm a hillbilly! My home's out in the farm country and my second home is back in the hollas of southern West Virginia.
So I am I! West-By-God-Virginia! Small town west of the capital and south of the Kanawha River. I my be a "Naturalized Texan", but that because I've lived here a while.. Live in the 4th largest city in the U.S., earlier developers left large tracts of forest standing and with several large bayous and creeks running through the city its sometimes hard to tell you are in a 4.5 million pop. area( county incl.).
Quote from: LivingInGrey on August 07, 2011, 10:30:16 AM
I think Hillbilly is another word I wouldn't associate with myself.
It's just one of those things I guess. Never could completely like Country Music. I don't drink Budweiser. I don't own cowboy boots. I don't own a John Deere. I don't like NASCAR. My dog and wife hasn't left me (gotta pick on the hicks once in a while... and the bad grammar was intended).
It always strikes me as odd when I meet someone who's lived in Wisconsin all their life and so has their entire family yet they have a Louisiana 'drawl' in their accent.
For some reason when someone uses the term Hillbilly (especially), country bumpkin or hick I always think of country music type people (extreme would be Beverly Hillbilly'esk).
I would be a city slicker living in the woods I guess.
The population per square mile for the county I live in is 1-10 people per square mile (in the northern section of WI).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wisconsin_population_map.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wisconsin_population_map.png)
You've got some things mixed up here, Hillbillies don't wear Cowboy Boots, Cowboys and Kickers do! Next Hillbillies don't drink Bud, its Moonshine! Well I guess you might see a Allis-Chalmers tractor in Wisconsin before a John Deere...NASCAR, now its everywhere!
Southern Lousiana- CAJUNS! ACADIANS! FRENCH! Draw? Anyone here a Cajun?
Just some clarification of terms.
I like some aspects of rural life, but overall I'm much more of a city person. I'm currently sandwiched between a city of about 100,000 people and a bunch of open space and mountains, and that works really well for me.
use to be a country bumpkin (grew up mostly in a town of 500 something peeps), but I am a city girl at heart. The countryside is nice to visit, but I miss being away from the hustle and bustle of the large town/city and not to mention the convenience of everything within walking distance.
I'm out in the county between two small towns. Can't stand the city. Don't care for city folk who move out here and then complain about everything that isn't the way it was in the city they came from. (cars in the yard,etc...) They should have stayed in the city.
Love sitting on the porch playing my guitar or target shooting out the back door. Wife uses a 22 rifle and 45 automatic. I use 44 magnum.
Enjoy being able to see the stars out at night while walking up and down the road with no thoughts of running into a mugger.
I like having no crack houses around or meth labs.
Love the fields, fresh air (when they're not out with the honey wagon) and the wild animals.
The country is a blessing.
The down side of living out in the county (our location anyway)is that it makes an easy target for burglary with people coming down the highway. They can rob a home, hit the highway and disappear. Hence, the target shooting and having loaded guns in the house.
Also, not to offend anyone but my wife and I were raised around loaded guns and my children grew up with loaded guns in every room. They were taught gun safety and that combined with a good old fashioned butt whipping the psychologists disagree with instilled in them a respect and fear of their parents like we had. They never dared touch a gun until we let them. Oddly, none of them grew up emotionally scarred.
Also, we might have had cars in the yard the boys worked on but they never got involved with drugs like the city kids that have parents that are forced to have clean yards. Sometimes if you sacrifice looks your kids just might have something to do with their spare time when not in school or doing chores. Building hot rods and going four wheeling or target shooting or tipping cows sure beats seeing your kids in jail because the neighbor doesn't like the look of those trucks and cars out back behind the shed or in the field.
Just an after thought after posting above.
Ya, I couldn't live in the city.
Enjoy being able to see the stars out at night ... no thoughts of running into a mugger ... no crack houses around or meth labs.
I can see the stars at night, and even more if I go out to the Coast and it's not foggy. Not as many as Iowa, but the sky is not devoid. I've never run into a mugger, crime is highly over-exaggerated. That there is more 'crime' in the urban regions then in rural areas by numbers is a function of population, if you do it per capita you'll find that non-urban regions actually have more violent crime. The most violent places in America are in the rural South, not the urban Northeast. I'm sure you don't have crack houses, nor do the places I live. I have a brewery down the street, and are surrounded by the best vineyards and wineries in the world, and everyone I know just about grows their own smoke, that's as hard core as it gets. The meth labs? I think you're wrong. Rural areas are much better places to locate these labs than urban regions because of the smell, the isolation and not having to worry about the kind of . And I'll bet that again on per capita basis there are far more people on meth in those areas then in middle class urban ones. City folk party with blow not crank.
Quote from: tekla on August 10, 2011, 12:10:32 AM
Enjoy being able to see the stars out at night ... no thoughts of running into a mugger ... no crack houses around or meth labs.
I'm sure you don't have crack houses, nor do the places I live. I have a brewery down the street, and are surrounded by the best vineyards and wineries in the world, and everyone I know just about grows their own smoke, that's as hard core as it gets.
Semi-urban bliss California style!
Wow Del. I didn't know "cow pushing" was anything but a local activity around here. Do the kids use "lemon guns" in the early hours of the morning too? >:-) (shooting lemons out of gas powered bird-scaring guns).
Karen.
Born in Sioux City, Iowa, raised in BFE, Tennessee....
Sorry, but I can't say I really like it out here. I find it's far too close-minded and "cliques" that should only exist in highschool are imposed on the entire town...You don't fit in? You're the town's new entertainer. =A=
I even moved into downtown (which is only about a mile of civilization and still a 30 minute walk to Walmart down a long, empty highway) so I could be closer to food, since I have no transportation of my own.
I live on campus in a city an hour long drive from here during fall and spring. And I have to be honest, I prefer it there. And I still wouldn't want to even live there for the rest of my life. Then again, I suppose I'm a Global Studies major for a reason.
I want to live in Berlin eventually. I lived there for a month during study abroad, and in that one month I became more attached to my neighborhood than I ever did here.
Hi,
County,, through & through ,
Lived in many county place's in the south isl of N Z . from a few 100 to under 5.000 people & have lived on the out skirts of 4 town's from the top of to the south of & east & west & know most of the city centers, plus groups of people as well. over 56 years with my Mum , & Jos & family of 5 of us , & travled to all of those places since, & a few with one of our grandaughter's, doing camping & haveing some fun times.
We have in Waimate 160 groups clubs & im involved with 4 & we interact with 5 others & if we dont know some one our members do. i do photography for our groups as well. two groups im in are women only ,
we have all we need here & im pretty well known , Timaru has 38.000 1 / 2 an hour n , Oamaru has 16.000. 1 / 2 hour s , then ch ch , 2 , 1 / 2 hours north of us & dunedin to the south, 1, 1 / 2 hours .
Ch Ch = Christchurch were we had the earth quake's ,
...noeleena...
We have a town 2 miles away and there must be at least 30 people living there. Kinda too crowded for me so i am out here. Everyone knows everything about everyone and so there are no drugs and criminals are caught pretty fast. Most here are amish or mennonites and they would never steal or commit a crime. thats why i am here. I don't associate very much at all with the others around here many who just have hunting cabins. The few others are good hard working farmers. and they respect my hard work. No i won't make a fortune with my gardens but i will feed people more than myself and for that i have earned respect. Thats country life for me and not just a fake hillbilly but a wise one and a hard working one. A true hillbilly doesn't just sit around drinking moonshine. They are the ones who fought hard during the revolutionary war and turned mountains into homesteads with hard work.
I'm far from a country bumpkin, but I do live in a quiet town in Maine where we can hear frogs in the pond on a summer night and loons on lake nearby. It's a nice place to live, but I do enjoy traveling to the city to shop and get out and about. It's a good happy medium.
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